{"id":3253,"date":"2009-10-17T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:14:45","slug":"yakult-swallows-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/yakult-swallows-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakult Swallows &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1000564trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1000564trim.jpg\" alt=\"kyosuke morioka meiji jungu diamond vision japanese fans\" title=\"meiji jungu diamond vision japanese fans kyosuke morioka\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m still a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/seibu-lions\/>Seibu Lions<\/a> fan, I almost instantly became a fan of the Yakult Swallows as well. Luckily the Swallows, in the Central League, are in a different league than the Lions (who are in the Pacific League) so cheering for both teams should not be a problem most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I became a fan is their nearby location. Another is their edgy attitude, demonstrated by the player&#8217;s faces on the screen when announced. <\/p>\n<p>There are many other reasons, but the overall one is they remind me of my favorite team in the US, the Oakland A&#8217;s. Both teams don&#8217;t spend on high-priced free agents. Both have a nearby team known as the Giants (I hate both). I&#8217;ll save some of my other reasons for later when I have pictures to better explain them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1000693trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1000693trim.jpg\" alt=\"japanese baseball\" title=\"japanese baseball\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 9th inning, 3-run home run by the Hiroshima Carp caused the Swallows to lose on this evening, but my daughter and I had a great time anyway. The Swallows made the Climax Series playoffs this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1000689trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1000689trim.jpg\" alt=\"meiji jingu stadium after dark swallows carp\" title=\"meiji jingu stadium after dark swallows carp\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The half-empty stadium on a weeknight also reminded me of the good old days at the Oakland Coliseum in the late 1970s and early 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;m still a Seibu Lions fan, I almost instantly became a fan of the Yakult Swallows as well. Luckily the Swallows, in the Central League, are in a different league than the Lions (who are in the Pacific League) so cheering for both teams should not be a problem most of the time. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,1023,176,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25090,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions\/25090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}